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Here we go again, so confused.....

Ok, I've had an enlarged spleen for a few years now. Doc didn't take it too serious until about 6 months ago when it had slightly grown more at which time she sent did all kinds of groovy blood tests including sending out to Mayo clinic for a smear. When that all came back ok she sent me to a blood cancer doc who was horrible! Right off the bat she starts going on about lymphoma and Leukemia and bone marrow and spleen biopsies etc. scared the living "bleep" out of me and quite frankly angered me to no end! She wanted to start with a CT scan but since I had just had an abdominal ultrasound my insurance said they wouldn't cover it. Cancer doc then said that since my blood work was good that she thought it unlikely it was cancer but referred me to a rheumatologist who I see in June I believe because something in my blood work came back with something about connective tissue or something, never got a straight answer I was just thrilled to not go back and see her. Fast forward 6 months to this week when I was now having pain in my liver area as well as my spleen, found 5 unexplained bruises on my legs, was exhausted etc and instant full on panic set in so I went to the ER where I had blood work and a CT. Blood work came back at just over 15K wbc and slightly elvated platelets at 470. Doc said those weren't good but at the same time said that the CT scan I was so afraid of showed not only no swollen lymph glands or tumors, but that my spleen looked normal size! I honestly didn't believe her, how could that be? I even asked several times but she assured me everything looked ok. So now back to the worrisome blood work. Even when I had been sick my wbc has never been that high. I should add that I have crippling fatigue, related or not, who knows. Now I understand that when most people are diagnosed their counts are 40,60 plus but I've also heard that in CML that it comes in very slowly and creeps up. So my question is, if my smear 6 months ago showed no cancer or pre cancer cells, could this be the start of some type of liekemia? I asked the doctor that question flat out and all she said was "it's not leukemia right now". Comforting eh?
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